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.That's not working," Lumie whined some more.He knew he was in trouble.He had allowed his concentration to wane, which was how Dane was able to find him when Lumie could have easily remained hidden, and now that he had been caught, he was going to have to face the consequences.Lumie absolutely did not like consequences.Mercury stood from his seat and walked over to Dane and Lumie.He reached out to grip Lumie under his arms and spun Lumie around until he was upright and cradled gently in Mercury's arms."You haven't worked a day of your life, Lumie," Mercury sighed."How would you know what Nickel's been up to?""I haven't worked yet," Lumie grumbled under his breath.Nothing Lumie said could ever be taken lightly.Dane didn't know if he was supposed to have heard yet another of Lumie's cryptic pronouncements, so he ignored it.Mercury ignored Lumie too."You made all the other kits do your portion of today's chores.If you want to have any candy tonight or for the rest of the week, you'll go apologize and you will help each kit with one of their chores to make up for skipping out on them.""But Daddy!" Lumie whined as Mercury walked to the door."Get to it," Mercury said as he opened the door and deposited Lumie on the other side.He shut the door on Lumie and returned to his seat.Dane hurried back to his own chair and the waiting laptop and map.The room was quiet for a few more seconds while Dane opened up his laptop and hit the power button.The silence didn't last long, however."Out of curiosity," William asked."What do you mean that Nickel is working at the moment? He's clearly too young to be involved with this discussion.I'm honestly wondering why he's here at all."Dane focused on his computer instead of answering.Nickel was capable of handling himself and Dane was more than happy to leave him to it.Nickel turned his head slowly to look at William.He was smiling widely, giving the room his cold, cutest-little-serial killer grin that always sent a shiver of fear running down Dane's spine."I am here to make sure everyone stays civil," Nickel replied simply, but with enough of a growl in his voice to imply that he could back up what his smile promised with equal strength.It was a touch too theatrical for Dane's taste and he knew Nickel was hamming it up for the audience, but it was effective.William didn't respond, only nodded mutely.He didn't look afraid of Nickel, but it really wasn't possible to contradict Nickel after seeing that horrible smile.The room remained silent except for the chime as Dane's computer logged in to his secure wireless server.He quickly pulled up the relevant documents and activated the spell that would only let his visitors read those specific files.Dane passed the computer to Nickel, who passed it on to William since he was closest.William tilted the screen and started reading.Dane unfolded the map next."The border between our two territories is here," Dane said to Henri as his finger traced the straight border through Maryland.It was just below the Mason-Dixon line, not many miles into Maryland, but far enough that Dane did have control of some of the Chesapeake Bay.The line Dane was drawing showed just how difficult it would be to discern the boundary from the ground.The northern border between Maryland and Pennsylvania, which the Mason-Dixon line followed, wasn't a straight east-west line.It went from southwest to northeast, but the territory lines were based on the land itself, not on the state's borders, and remained firmly east-west.That was why Dane had control of some of Maryland and only half of Delaware."Here's the line on a better map," William agreed, tilting the computer screen so Henri could also see from a few seats away."The address for the warehouse is here," he continued, tapping the dot Dane remembered adding to the map in question.He had made certain the warehouse was inside his territory before attacking it and had left that map on top of the open files for William to see."But that's…" Henri closed his mouth sharply before whatever thought was on his tongue could escape.He glared at the computer screen, but didn't open his mouth again to refute Dane's proof."You're supposed to inform me whenever your activities come close to our shared border," he finally finished petulantly.Dane had a feeling Henri would be pouting like Lumie if he thought he could get away with it.William frowned at Henri before Dane could formulate a response."Now you're splitting hairs.I for one am quite disappointed.I was told there was irrefutable evidence that Dane was trying to take over two adjacent territories and that it was only a matter of time before he turned his attention to mine.My goal," he added with a glance at Dane, "was to bring your machinations to an immediate halt.We hoped the three affected territory leaders would be able to subdue you.It appears that Henri, Jessica, and I have instead invaded your territory without appropriate provocation.We must discuss how our misconception occurred and what reparations we need to make."Dane nodded slowly in agreement, but he couldn't help wondering what was going on.Someone had incited all three territory leaders to leave their own territories and invade Dane's.That the duplicity had been uncovered was good—Dane really didn't want to fight against the combined strengths of William, Henri, and Jessica in order to keep hold of his territory and home—but the fact that the accusations had grown to the point the territory leaders felt they had to intervene was very worrying.Dane didn't care about reparations.Finding out what was going on was far more important, but Dane glanced over at Mercury only to see that Mercury was frowning down at his watch.Dane glanced at his computer as William returned it to him and the clock in the upper corner of the screen told him how late it was getting."We definitely have some things to discuss," Dane agreed, "but if we don't start making dinner, the kits will literally start eating the furniture.Mercury nodded in agreement and pushed back his seat so he could stand."It's fettuccini alfredo night," he said to the table."It'll be ready in a half hour."Mercury left the room and could be heard calling for the kits to come help.Dane stood up as well."There's going to be kits in here in a minute to set the table." And they wouldn't be shy about shoving the visitors out of the way to get their chores done as quickly as possible.It was a recipe for disaster."How about we take a break until after dinner?"It took a few moments for everyone to stand and head out of the room.Dane called on his magic, letting it fizz through his fingers.Mother glanced sharply at him, but no one else noticed as the magic tapped a mark onto Henri, William, and Jessica's shoulders.Now he didn't have to have them watched while he was busy helping the kits and Mercury get dinner ready.He let his guests wander freely, aware that if they went anywhere suspicious he would know.Dane left them to it and hurried to Mercury's side in the kitchen.CHAPTER FOURMercury knew to stand back and let the kits have at it.Fettuccini alfredo was a dish the kits had long ago memorized the recipe to and he was more than happy to supervise.Zinc and Alloy were in charge of the stove where a gigantic pot of boiling noodles bubbled away.A second, equally large pot was melting together the cream and butter for the sauce.The kits knew when to start adding the cheese to the cream and to stir the pasta so the noodles didn't stick [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]